Improvement in sheep-shears



.gotten gieten gettati @fittaV HERMANN WE'NDT, 0E ELIZABETH, NEWV JERSEY, --'SSIGNOR To HENRY` SEYMOUR vAND COMPANY, 0F NEW-YORK CITY.

Lamu Patent N0.ao,255, and July' 21,1868.

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Be known that I, HERMANN WENDT, of Elizabetb,fin the countyoi Union, andmStat'e of New Jersey, have invented a new andusefnl Improvement in` Sheep-Shears and I do hereby declare that the following' isa.

' full,clear, and exact description thereof, which vrill enable those ,skilled in the art to make and use` the saure,

refei'ence being had to th'e accompanying drawing( forming part of this spemiication.

-This invention' relates to a new and useful improvement in the construction of"sheepshears, and is an improvement on a process o f construction which was patented by Hermann Wendt and Henry Seymour, the

I which areemployed to prevent the blades o f the shears from passing each other. v

vLetters Patent bear-ing dats November 22, 1864.

i The object of the present'invehtion is to obviate the wearing of 4what are commonly trmed`the .sto'ps',

Hitherto these stops have been formed entirely of iron, but by my improvement I form them of steel` and' liron combined, and `in such e ma'nner that theprocess of constructiomas described in the LettersPatent off.

Wendt and Seymour, above alluded to, is not interfercdwith-innthe; least.

` In-the accompanying sheet of drawings; Figure 1 is an edge view of oi' one-half of a pair of shears, partly nished, according to my improvement. Figure 2, a side view of tbc same; V Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts, A represents one of the shanlr's, and B a portion of the spring-boiv of the shears. C is lthe iron back plate, and D the steel front plate of the blade,said plates being welded together ,andV to* the shank A, in the same way as described. in the Letters Patent of Wendt and ,Seymour.

The iron plate C is formed with a projection or ear, a, at its-base or inner end, i the same Wy as before;

Vand asimilar ear orz projection, a', is at the bnseor inner 'end of the steel plate C, (see lig. 1,) in which theV plates C D are not wclded'to'gether. This steel ear` or projection a constitutes the improvement, the iron an'd steel ears a of being Welded together at the same time the'plates C D arc welded.

The blades -aretempered in the usual way, to wit, by-iirst rendering them as hard as possible,a nd then u drawing the temper at their cu'ttingedges, the ears or projections a7 being left in their original hard state.

These projections or cars, thus constructed or.formed, constitute vvhat are termed f stops,to pravclrtthe blades from crossing each other, and are rendered extremely durable, as tbehard ened steel portionsq 'ei'ectually resist wear, and will last as long as the other portions of' the shears, whereas the ordinaryl stops, or those Y constructed in the common way,'exclusively of iron, soon become worn in consequence of beingbo'ugh-t rapidly in contact in using the shears, :icontingency `which my improvement effectually obviats.

' Having thus described my'in-venton, what I claimas'new, and desire to secure by LettersY Patent, i s' The combination, of the projection or ears a al, formed respectively at the'inner ends` of the iron and'steel lplates C D of the blades, and vrelded together to constitute lthe stops of sheep-shears, substantially as..herc in eet forth.

The above specification of my invention'signed by mo, this l day of i 18,68:

, HERMANN WENDT;

Witnesses:

STANLEY G. MA'soN, Jamas M. limoen. 

